Ok I've read the millennium trilogy, seen the Swedish versions of all three films including the extended cuts and the Hollywood version, so I was interested to see how the graphic novel adaptation was handled. Lisbeth Salander is probably one of the most intriguing heroines ever put down on paper...
Absolutely loved the book. When I saw that the three books been offered for sale at a flee market I could not believe it. I have missed the films, but what an opportunity to read all three books over the holiday period. This book gripped my from the start. The way this author has described the ma...
I confess to not having read the novel, and at this point, I'm not sure that I will. I tried to keep away from the story as long as I could, so that I could be surprised when I read the novel, but the hype around the movie sucked me in, and I saw it. So far, the graphic novel has drawn me in bett...
I have read this book, and listened to it on CD too. Loved both. But I am not real happy with this graphic-novel adaption.Let me begin by saying I certainly enjoyed the effort and talent that went into producing this book. The detail and quality of the artwork is certainly makes one aware of the ...
I thought it was just a gothic horror story and I enjoyed it up until that point that the mystery was solved. Then it became a gritty/dark mystery - a genre that I don't like. I wouldn't have read it if it was in graphic novel form. Sure everyone except the protagonist was unlikeable, but I thoug...
Overall, I thought the story was mean. All the characters, except for the narrator, were angry, jealous, full of "me" attitude. Only one character, the adopted son, showed any compassion, and, in the end, he is punished and becomes what the others were. It is a sad, angry story. Well written. End...
Paddy Keeps Rolling! - 4 Stars Paddy Meehan is one of the most entertaining characters I have encountered in a long time. On one hand, she is a little overweight and is self conscious while on the other she is spunky, quick witted and quick tempered. She is the only unbeliever in a staunchly c...
At first, I didn't like this book--found the protagonist Paddy to be sulky, petty, whiny, and unlikable. As the story went on, I started to think maybe I was warming up to her. She was earnest sometimes, she wasn't content with being a good Catholic housewife and found it offensive that her fianc...
Wow. Just wow. This is enough to make you use some silly acronym like WTF when you’re rather more someone who would just like to use the explicit phrase. It was all going so well, I was thinking Wow just wow in an awesome way & then I got to the literal last page of this book & my head kind of ex...
A brilliant new thriller featuring Paddy Meehan, one of the most praised heroines since Temperance Brennan, from "a rising star in the world of crime fiction" (Laura Miller, Salon). Paddy Meehan is no stranger to murder--as a reporter she lives at crime scenes--but nothing has prepared her for...
Armed men invade a family home, shouting for a man nobody's heard of. As DS Morrow tries to uncover one family's secrets, she must protect her own.
‘Ma’am?’‘Yes?’‘Ma’am, I wasn’t sure at the time but come and see this.’ He waved to her to follow him to his desk. He had a still from the car park CCTV streamed into his desktop. A grainy picture showed the front of a small white van parked across the road. The licence plate was readable.She loo...
Each time he shut his eyes to blink, he expected the world to be different when he opened them. It never was. A dead woman found at Susan’s. Boyd only met Roxanna once. Sanjay didn’t talk about her much and then she was history. She had kids. They were young blokes. Boyd was honestly more startle...
She kept her notebook on her knee, glancing down at it every so often, pretending she was making sense of the details and time lines. All she could think about was a younger Kay Murray, standing on a street corner outside the AJ Supplies in Shawlands, wearing a lot of lipstick. JJ had just been b...
HEADIE’S HOLIDAYKilty Goldfarb was sitting by the window, sipping a milk shake, wearing her fur coat and a ski hat, looking worried and jumpy. She watched Maureen cross the road and come in through the doors. She looked at the table and gathered a thin smile before looking back up.“I’m sorry if I...
The journalists, who had to make do with ten stolen minutes in the canteen or a sandwich at their desks, watched them insolently, feet up on desks, fags dangling from mouths, the antagonism between the two groups palpable. They hated each other because editors gave the orders and chewed up the jo...
I AM STANDING on a rostrum in my old school library. An audience of thirty or so people is applauding, I am smiling and mouthing “thank you” and I know that they all hate me. The audience looks like people I used to know seven years ago, but less hopeful and fatter. Actually, they’re not fat, the...
the door was shut, the spy hole open, meaning they could look in at him at any time. He listened for footfalls outside, for air moving in the corridor. Being perpetually on show required a condition of alertness, so much so that he had stopped swallowing his medication on alternate days. They gav...
Despite a heart condition, she chain-smokes Kensas Club. The fingers on her right hand are tobacco-stained. Karen was conceived when Veronica was only fourteen, but she is at pains to point out that she didn’t give birth until she was fifteen. Her parents put her out of the house and the child’s ...